Bring Your Own Water
Every day millions of plastic water bottles are sold. Soon after they are thrown into garbage cans, waste dumps, oceans, and lakes. Help start the Bring Your Own Water movement! Invest in a reusable water bottle and fill up before you leave the house. Save hundreds of dollars, save pounds of plastic, and save the environment.
Did you know?
*Americans buy approximately 29.8 billion plastic water bottles every year. Of this amount, 8 out of 10 water bottles will not be recycled.
* Many of these water bottles can make their way into our environment, littering the habitats of both marine and land animals.
Source: Facts About Plastic Bottles
*This year more than 25 billion single use plastic water bottles will be sold in the United States alone and more than 80 percent of those will end up being thrown away instead of recycled.
*Over 1.5 million barrels of oil were used to make the plastic bottles consumed in the US last year, that’s enough petroleum to power 100,000 automobiles for a year!
*Drinking out of bottled water actually wastes water (using up to 5 times as much) and in a world where many people don’t have adequate drinking water, that’s just wrong.
*Certain plastics have been shown to leach Biphesenol A, a hormone disruptor. While this is not a problem in all bottled water, who’s to say what scientists will find leaching from plastics down the road.
*While some bottles do end up getting recycled, in reality they are downcycled, being turned into other products leaving most new water bottles to require virgin plastic.
Source: Care2
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